Waverly Terrace

Waverly Terrace is a planned residential suburb in the highlands of Columbus, Georgia, about a mile and a half north-northeast of downtown. Industrialist G. Gunby Jordan deeded his Waverly Farm to the Jordan Company in 1904, and a final survey in 1906 set out the present gridiron of streets. Water, sewer and electric lines were installed when the streets were graded, and streetcars connected the neighborhood to downtown. Most houses date from 1906 to 1929 and are one to two stories, chiefly Craftsman/Bungalow, with some Spanish Mission, late Victorian, Neoclassical and Georgian Revival influences. Front porches, terraced yards with low retaining walls, street trees, stone curbs and concrete sidewalks give the area a consistent character. Architect Thomas W. Smith designed the Waverly Terrace School, the Congregational Church, his own home and other houses. The district also contains the 1906 Secondary Industrial School, an early vocational education institution, and was home to many of the city's middle-class professionals, managers and tradesmen.